Publications related to Business

Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Threats in the Era of Grand Societal Challenges

We live in an era defined by attempts to grapple with an ever-expanding array of grand societal challenges (GCs). These challenges comprise transformational social and environmental issues, such as environmental degradation and global pandemics, and the cr ...

EPFL2023

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté, Alain Wegmann

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

The triangular value of patents

Albina Khairullina

This thesis addresses the question of a patent value from three different angles. It comprises three papers on the patent valuation methods. The patent valuation issues are well-known to the world of research and practice. However, the debates over what th ...

EPFL2020

For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making

Nettra Danette Pan

Organizing is a managerial process which demands a sense of purpose. When stories about "who we are" and "what we do" are salient and coherent (Voss, Cable & Voss, 2006), organizations can better plan, explain and justify collective action (Whetten & Macke ...

EPFL2018

Technology-Transfer Requirements Engineering (TTRE) – on the Value of Conceptualizing Alternatives

Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this paper, we describe a requirements engineering methodwith a focus on the conceptualization of alternative service offerings. Thepractical context for our project is based on the first author’s work in astartup. Our proposed method is suitable for ex ...

Springer, Cham2018

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

A critical assessment of business model research

Christopher Tucci, Allan Afuah, Lorenzo Massa

Ever since the Internet boom of the mid-1990s, firms have been experimenting with new ways of doing business and achieving their goals, which has led to a branching of the scholarly literature on business models. Three interpretations of the meaning and fu ...

Acad Management2017

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat : Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Post AG

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Systemic evaluation of actions toward developing practical broadband applications for elderly and people with disabilities

Patrick Roe

The paper reports results of a structured democratic dialogue Co-Laboratory that aimed to explore actions that could alleviate obstacles preventing the development of practical broadband applications for elderly people and people with disabilities. Thirty- ...

Springer Verlag2017

Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Gil Regev

When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, ...

2017

Designing modeling notations readers understand

George Popescu

[Context] IT modelers create models to communicate their conceptualization of an organization and to facilitate the collaboration between business and IT people. The story they convey in their models is how the corporate IT systems fulfill the business peo ...

EPFL2016

Innovation capacity and the role of information systems: a qualitative study

Gianluigi Viscusi

Today businesses are facing radical transformations through digitalization of services and products. Accordingly, their ability to innovate is increasingly linked to the capacity to innovate through information and communication technologies (ICTs). This a ...

2016

Digital business innovation: roadmaps and attitudes from a FutureEnterprise perspective

Gianluigi Viscusi

The paper investigates the potential axes and dimensions of roadmaps for digital business innovation for entrepreneurs as well as enterprises. Actually, digital business innovation requires a change of perspective with regard to IT governance and managemen ...

2015

Providing ancillary service with commercial buildings: the Swiss perspective

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ali Ahmadi Khatir, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Ancillary services constitute the cornerstone of the power grid. They allow for an efficient system operation, provide resilience to uncertainties and establish safeguards against unprecedented events. Their importance is growing due to the rise of grid de ...

2015

Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon that has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. However, current research on coopetition is still short on explaining how the pot ...

2014

Towards Ontology-based Context Modeling for Manufacturing Applications

Drazen Nadoveza

Relevant and readily available information is a crucial basis for decision making, problem solving or performing knowledge-intensive work. The motivation for this thesis lays in the fact that in certain situations not all information provided by an applica ...

EPFL2014

Value Map - An Innovative Tool for Business Model Innovation

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Aarthi Gopal

In this paper, we present a modeling framework called “Value Map”. Value Map assists in conceptualization, representation and analysis of value creation and capture processes with the objective of innovating a firm’s business model. We illustrate the appli ...

ISPIM2014

Requirements modeling in SEAM: The example of a car crash management system

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic, George Popescu, Maedeh Yassaee

This paper presents how business and IT requirements are captured with the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM). The method is applied to the Car Crash Management System (CMS) - Software Product Line (SPL) case study. The existing business s ...

IEEE2013

Expectation-Driven Cycles in the Housing Market: Evidence from Survey Data

Luisa Lambertini

Using a vector-autoregression (VAR) model and data from the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, we provide evidence on the importance of news and consumers' beliefs for housing-market dynamics and aggregate fluctuations. We document that innovation ...

2013

A decision support system assessing the trust level in supply chains based on information sharing dimensions

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Omar Ayadi

Assessing customer trust in suppliers with regards to its influencing factors is an important open issue in supply chain management literature. In this paper, a customer trust index is designed as the trust level arising from the information sharing degree ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013